[EM] Head to Head Comparison of Election Methods
DEMOREP1 at aol.com
DEMOREP1 at aol.com
Wed Jun 9 19:52:50 PDT 1999
Mr. Dumais wrote in part on June 8 --
Good point. I've assumed any table can be achieved with a set of
votes (how wrong I was!). Producing the examples I'm looking for might
be difficult, but this is primarily because they occur with 4 or more
candidates. Does anyone have a good way of producing voting examples
given a pair-wise matrix? It is not as trivial as I had first assumed.
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D----
Going backward from a head to head table with N choices to actual votes (such
as X votes for B > C > A > D > M > N > T ) is a major chore since there are
N factorial possibilities of combinations of ranked votes (ignoring truncated
votes) ---
Choices Factorial
2 2 x 1 = 2 (A > B or B > A)
3 3 X 2 x1 = 6
4 4 x 3 x 2 x 1 = 24 (first chance for clones in tie cases
with no head to head winner)
5 120
6 720
7 5040
etc. etc.
Any supercomputer programmers in internet land (especially for testing
methods with a 6 or more choices) ???
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